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Band conditions are rocking today. Just doing IARU HF contest using my President McKinley on 10m and an Imax 2000 25ft off the floor. D4K in Cape Verde from Northern England, 2890 miles, got through second call with 20W.

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Got a brand new President McKinley from Knights CB here in the UK. Had it widebanded so I could use it on 10m. Decided to check the power outputs today using my MFJ 993 and a dummy load. On AM it would appear to have "backwards swing" so you key up with no audio and the S meter on the McKinley...

Was reading through all the threads and I realised one thing.... Once upon a time life with a CB was simple. You'd get an antenna, screw it into a magmount or a mirror mount, throw it on the car, hook your CB up to wherever you could get 12V from and off you'd go, happy as a pig in muck...

Welcome to the Sirio Blizzard 2700 with anti-vibration ring. If it looks very familiar to some that comes as no surprise. Yep....we have yet another repackaging of the Sirio 827 being released as a brand new antenna where all they've done is kept the same core antenna and made changes to...

I put this in as an answer to a question about stacked antennas but decided it was worthy of being a post on the subject itself. So the question asked was what is the benefit of stacking antennas? A description from Steve G3TXQ (SK): "An HF signal which propagates via the ionosphere will...

So I changed my car a little while back from a 2010 Ford Mondeo (sold as Fusion in the US) which had a Kenwood TS480, a Kenwood TM-D710, a screwdriver antenna and dual band antenna installed to a 2019 MK4 Ford Focus. Work is quiet so I decided I'd swap all my radio gear in. Looking at how hard...

I forgot I'd got this in my playlist.

I posted this explanation in response to a post in another thread but thought it was worthy of one of its own seeing as it gets brought up so much.... I'll tell you how this whole nonsense came about. (This is simplistic). Lets take a simple dipole antenna. First of all read this to get a...

Excellent conditions today. Sun just starting to go down here in England and signals from the USA are up to S9+ now.

Currently listening to superbowl on the Flex and getting lots of US/Canadian stations S9. Some fantastic conditions out there if anyone wants to try some DX. Its starting to get dark here so after around 19:00 UTC you'll probably struggle.

Posted on Reddit. Would anyone care to point out the problems? No way in hell would I ever buy anything from that company....

Just a post to save people needlessly wasting their time trying to find a fault that isn't there. A and K indexes are high with K at level 6, there's a major geomagnetic storm on the go so if you're sat there not able to hear a thing wondering if your rig or antenna is broken, it isn't.

One for the preppers? The Sirio Performer 5000 Fighter is a limited edition. Its a 3/8 fitting, without the stub underneath like the trucker version, and the whip is about 6 inches longer than the Sirio Performer 5000 PL making it almost 7ft tall. For the pepper the coil cover is in camouflage...

I know I always bleat on about it being all about getting wire in the air and on QRZ someone asked a question about using longer whips on the Little Tarheel 2. As I have one and a collection of whips I did a little experiment on the way home from my radio club meet. I compare the stock 32"...

Serious geomagnetic storm on the go, G4 level. A index is at 117...highest I can recall, K currently dropped to 6. HF wiped to out to the point you may think that there is a fault. Might take a few days to calm down.

Now getting sick of the "You have an Adblocker installed" pop up every single time I change a page. Yes I know the site is partially funded by ad views but I use adblockers for a reason - one primary source of attack on computers is malware infested ads. Telling me this message every time I...

Bit hard to see but there's a VHF whip in the middle of the roof and my Little Tarheel II with the 6ft whip. Rigs are a Kenwood TS480SAT and a Kenwood TM-D710 View from the driver's seat. Nothing better than working a bit of DX on the way home, usually made sweeter by busting a pileup whilst...

http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-ups-the-ante-in-proposing-huge-fine-on-cb-operator Right on the heels of a whopping $14,000 proposed forfeiture for a Florida CBer for failing to allow a station inspection, the FCC Enforcement Bureau is recommending a $22,000 fine for a New York CBer. The FCC...